§ Mr. HobanTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of(a) individuals and (b) companies filed their tax returns electronically in 2000. [32949]
§ Dawn Primarolo[holding answer 4 February 2002]: (a) 9.324 million tax returns were issued for the year ended 5 April 2001. Of these 324,296 individual tax returns were filed electronically.
(b) No companies filed their corporation tax returns electronically. We do not currently have an electronic system for corporation tax returns.
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